Annie Brechin

Party postcards

There are so many things
about this fucked-up weekend
I’ve still to tell you

How I got headbutted
on the eye socket
during the boat party

How the crazy
Zimbabwean blonde
fought the Russian prostitutes

How I dreamt of you
in your bed but
with my sheets

you were so warm
the light spilled everywhere

Annie Brechin has been published in Poetry Wales, Under The Radar, The Wolf, Stand, Magma, Rising, B O D Y, Paris Lit Up and others. In 2003 she was awarded a Jerwood/Arvon Young Poets Apprenticeship. A pamphlet, The Body Alone, was launched in 2017. Her first full length collection, The Mouth Of Eulalie, was published by Blue Diode Press in March 2022.